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C O N S T I T U T I O X 



THE WASHINGTON 



NATIONAL MONUMENT SOCIETY 



Washington: 

I'RIKTKI) BT GAL1.S AKP SEaTOX. 
1835. 



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CONSTITUTION. 



Article 1. 



This Society shall be styled ' The Wash- 
ington National Monument Society,' and 
its object shall be the erection of a Great Na- 
tir.al Monument to the memory of Washing- 
' n, at the Seat of the Federal Government. 

Article 2. 

The Society shall consist of all adult male 
' atributors. The Officers of the Society 
nail be a President, who may be selected 
from the United States, without regard to res- 
idence, three Vice Presidents, a Treasurer, 
and Secretary, who, with thirteen members, 
to be chosen as hereinafter mentioned, shall 
constitute a Board of Managers, all of whom 
shall be residents of the District of Columbia, 
and who, with the President, shall be trien- 
nially elected by ballot by the members of 
the Society present at its anniversary meet- 
ing on the 22d day of February, 1835, and on 
the same day in every third year thereafter. 
The existing Officers shall hold their places 
until the 22d of February, 1835; and all Offi- 
cers shall continue in office until others shall 



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7 3 Article 12. 

No amendment to the Constitution shall be 
made, except at an annual meeting of the 
Society, and with the concurrence of three- 
fourths of the members present. 



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